The Devil's Staircase by Helen Fitzgerald

Author:Helen Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Polygon
Published: 2012-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

20

She’d honestly expected the footsteps to be the police. It was still light. He never came when it was light. This had to be the police, or the girl, at last. But why were they being so careful? Why were seventeen cars not screeching to a halt around the building, their contents spilling out, surrounding, taking aim, storming, then saving her?

It wasn’t the police. It was him. He had Bobby in his arms. ‘Very creative,’ he said, toying with the necklace.

Bobby hissed and lashed at his captor’s hand.

‘Ow!’ said the masked man, throwing the cat down and nursing his scratched wrist. Bobby immediately rushed over to his owner, and curled into her naked lap. Celia moaned as she put her hands on him, more so as the man approached and snatched the cat from her. Celia reached with her tied hands to stop him. The cat screeched, desperate to get away. Kneeling on the floor, the man held Bobby between his knees, while roughly knotting the locket-chain around his neck. He smiled at Celia’s pleading eyes, then stood up with Bobby in his hands. He lifted the cat high . . . and let go. Bobby wriggled as the noose strangled him, his paws dangling just an inch from the floor. The man waited for the movement to subside, as if holding a spinning yo-yo. Afterwards, just to make a point, the man pulled at the chain-knot until the cat’s head severed and flopped onto the ground.

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